Palán
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ˈpalaːn/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Palán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Palán is also written পালন in Bengali and ബാലൻ in Malayalam.
- CZCzechia1 in 18K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 302K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Palán itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 named Balan, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Palán in other scripts: Latin, Bengali and Malayalam
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Balan in MY Malaysia, PH Philippines, RO Romania and 1 more and Palan in EC Ecuador, MX Mexico.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Palán
- Czech:/ˈpalaːn/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Palán is found
(measured from records)Palán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 879 | — | Balan | 15 |
| EC Ecuador | 11,678as Bailon | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Palan | 13 |
| MX Mexico | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 361 | Palan | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Balan | 49 |
| PH Philippines | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Balan | 19 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Balan | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 606 | 1 in 18K | 607 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aleš Palánb. 1965CZCzech publicist, publicist and writer
- Martin Palánb. 1980CZCzech actor and presenter
- Václav Palánb. 2001CZbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Palán?
- In Czech /ˈpalaːn/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Palán?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Balan in Romania, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ecuador, Mexico, Malaysia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Palán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Palán is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Palán?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 606 people named Palán, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pal%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Palán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.